Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-17
A CRUSHING DEFEAT.
The Washinxtons Annfhilated i'm Phila-
delphia-Other Games Yesterday.

The washingtons were annihilated in Philadel-
phia yesterday. The score was IL to 4 The
Statesmen made hits and IL errors and the Phil
lies 81 hits and errors. The result was particu-
larry disappointing, as Gilmore pitched a strong
game up to the seventh inning, and until then the
score was two to two. The Statesmen lost their
opportunity Of passing the Pittsburgs, who were
defeated by Indianapolis.
The Philadelphia Press says OF yesterday game:
'tGanney put Gilmore In the box and for six
straight innings he fooled the home batsmen,
but In the seventh they solved his delivery and
inued the smuggling in the eighth, making in these
two innings no less than sixteen runs. The home
team should have won the game In the first halt,
by. Ferguson joined his club this morning and
went into the box with Clements to support him,
fui. But tor errors by Andrews and Irwin and a
bad throw to second by Clements the visitors
would have been shut out. The home club was as
Farrell and Mack, those made by Myers especially
proving very costly: The umpirtng Of Mr.; Con- on;
one noticeable mistake, that Of calling MT. NC
Laughlin out on strikes In the NTH inn:
Ing Ing One of the peculiar features Of
tired every time he went to the bat on
foul flies to Mulvey. Wood was the only home
ciu9 player who TAILED to make clean nut MAKING
ter, and reached the bag three times on phantom
hits. The runs were scored in this fashion: For
out ShOch crossed the plate on q single, wild
throw by Clements, and double by Donneny. In
the third OBrten hit to deep-left. Wood chased
the ball and threw 1t to Irwin in time to hold the
runner on third, but Irwin dropped the ball and
O'Brien scored. In the ninth. with two men out,
Myers sent out a f1y to Andrews, who dropped II.
ShOch made q double, and DOnnelly single,
which allowed two men TO cross the plate. For
the home club a base on balls, single by Glenn
entS, passed ball, and wild throw by Don
nelly yielded one In the second. In the third a
tumble by Myers. q steal, and a single oy NC
Laughl1n sent Ferguson across the plate. In the
seventh, errors by Myers, Farrell and Mack, SIN
giles by Farrar, Irwin, Clements, Mulvey, Fergu-
son, and Mclaughlin, and a double by FOgarty,
allowed eight men to cross the plate, and IN the
eighth eight more runs were scored on doubles by
Mclaughlin and Irwin triples by Ferguson and
Farrar, and an error by Myers"
OTHER GAMRs YESTERDAY.
The DetrOits lowered the cOlOrs TO Chicago to
| 1, and as Boston defeated New York IL to ), the
men from the Hub are on the very heels OF the
Wolverines. The Indianapolis team earned a
splendid victory over Pittsburg, to 2, in twelve
| innings.
In the Association the Athletics defeated the
| Clevelands 10 to g. disgraceful wrangle In the
Held at Baltimore resulted In the umpire declar-
Ing the st. Lou s. BaltimOre game draw, 3 to g.
Louisville jumped ahead Of Brooklyn by downing
the latter, to 3, and Cincinnati after hard work
| managed to keep third place by beating the Nets
| IL to 10, in a ten-inning game.
Following Is the standing Of the clubs to date: